久能山東照宮 Kunozan Toshogu

台風18号来てますな。風がキツイわ～。
さてさて、一昨日から我が家に嫁の両親が遊びに来てくれてます。
そんな訳で静岡観光～。って雨～・・・。かと思いきやっ!?
何故かワシらが車を降りて観光し始めると雨が止む。
おいおいマジかっ！
母ちゃん曰く「晴れ女」。にしても神がかってるわっ！
写真は久能山東照宮。徳川家康の御廟です。実は日光東照宮が
有名ですが、実際に家康が亡くなった翌日に埋葬されたのはこの久能山東照宮。
こっちが本家本元！静岡遊びに来てや～！

Typhoon 18th is coming! Winds are so strong.

Anyway, my parents in low have been coming to my house since the day before yesterday.

So we wanted to go sightseeing in Shizuoka but raining….

I thought it is not good day for going around tour BUT!?

Somehow when we get off car and starting tour, the rain was stop.

Wow Wow!!! It’s amazing!

Mother in low said she is “fair weather women” but it is really unbelievable.

I took a picture in front of “Kunozan Toshogu” which is grave of Ieyasu Tokugawa.

You may well know “Nikko Toshogu” and it is a very famous temple but in fact, he was buried in this temple next day of his last day.

This temple is the real original “Toshogu”!

Please come to Shizuoka and visit my house!

I’m waiting!

ゲリラ豪雨！ Guerrilla Downpour!

いや～、2020年夏季オリンピック東京開催決定!!!!!
やりましたなぁ。これで景気回復の足がかりとなってくれると良いんだが。
ところで、今朝は雨と雷がセットの強力なゲリラ豪雨。
雨はザーザー降ってるし、雷もバババァアーーーンっ！って凄いの何のってよ。
寝てられるかっ!!
おかげで開催地発表Liveで見れましたよ～。

Hi everybody! Tokyo was chose as summer Olympic city in 2020 this morning!!!!

It’s a great news, right? I hope Japanese business situation will be getting better.

Anyway, this morning, we had hard rain and thunder lightning which we call guerrilla downpour.

Of cause rain was so hard but also thunder lightning sound is “BaaBaannn!!!!!”.

It’s a really noisy so I couldn’t keep sleeping.

But because of the weather, I could watch TV of the Olympic city publication in live.

岐阜出張 Business trip to Gifu

本日は岐阜県関市へ日帰り出張です。
行くまで知らなかったんだけど、関市は刃物で世界的に有名らしい。
昔は日本刀を作っていたが、今は包丁を日本国内は勿論海外へも
バンバン輸出してるんだってよ。
包丁って言うと大阪堺ってイメージが強いけど関市もスゴイらしい。
さてさて、そんな訳で刀匠の神様を祭っている春日神社へ行って来ました。

Today, I’m coming to Seki city in Gifu prefecture for one day business trip.

I haven’t known till coming here, Seki city is very famous in the world about knife.

Long time ago, people were making Japanese sword but now they are producing knives and not only domestic but also exporting the knives a lot.

When I image a knife, I visualize Sakai city in Osaka but Seki city is also said very popular for knife.

Anyway, I took a picture in front of Kasuga shrine which enshrines god of sword smith. 

珍客 Unexpected visitor

朝　岐阜出張の準備をしていたら、嫁の「うぁぁぁ～っ！　何ぃぃ～っ！」という悲鳴。
急いで駆け付けると網戸に鳥がへばり付いている。
しかも、かなり体力が無さ気で徐々に下へ下へと落ちて行く・・・・。
おいっ！まさか病気っ!?
見る見る内に落ちて行きベランダの端へと移動。
嫁曰く「そこで寝るだけならOK。でも絶対にそこでは死ぬなよ!!!!!」
そんな彼の写真を撮影。スズメでは無いね。
嫁が出勤後15分程度寝た彼は元気良く飛び立って行きました。
きっと昨日夜遊びし過ぎたんだろうね。
寝るだけなら、何時来てくれても良いよ。
まぁ、何にせよ元気で良かった良かった。

This morning, when I was reading for business trip to Gifu, my wife was screaming “Uhwaaaa~! What you are~~~っ！”

So I running to her place and I could see a bird flatten oneself against the screen door.

He looks really not have enough energy and going down bit by bit.

Hey! We thought you disease!?

He was falling down bit by bit and moving to side of balcony.

My wife said “if you are taking nap, it is fine but she never accept you die at my balcony!!!!”.

I took his picture. He is not sparrow, right?

After my wife going job, he took nap about 15 minutes and leave my house lively.

I think he may play too much overnight yesterday.

You may come my house any time if you want for taking nap only and I always welcome you.

Anyway, he is fine so it is really good .

極小 Quite small

我が家のゴーヤのあまりの小ささに我慢出来ず、完熟しオレンジ色になるまで
放置して、成長の限界を確認してみました。
こんだけ熟してもこのサイズ・・・。
完全に戦意喪失しました。きっと実が大きくならない種類なんだと諦めたよ。
肥料は残っていますが来年の苗の為に取って置く事にします。
これにて今年のゴーヤ菜園終了～。

I couldn’t endure too small size of bitter melon in my kitchen garden so I wait it will be orange color to fully ripen and I confirmed their maximum size.

You may see these bitter melons in picture.

They are fully ripened and will not be bigger any more.

I completely gave up.

I think my Go-ya was one of species which will not be big.

I still have manure but I will keep it for next year.

So my kitchen garden in this year is over.

虹 Rainbow

今日も暑かったなぁ～。
夏休みも終わり出勤前は憂鬱な気分・・・でも、明け方に雨が降ったせいで
綺麗な虹が出てよ～。
ようしっ！頑張るか～！って気になれたわ。ま、暇なんだけどね。
そんな訳で虹の写真を撮ってみました。

Today was also hot, right?
My summer vacation was finished and I was little blue before going to company today but beautiful rainbow was show up because of raining in the morning.
I could change my mind to work harder! But actually I'm not so busy.
So I took a picture of the rainbow. 

夏休み Summer Vacation

ブログのネタが無いな～。と思っていたら１月近くが経ってしまいました。
夏休みも今日で終わり。今日は景気良く昼間っからビール、焼酎飲み始めちゃってます！
さてさて、週末は大阪の嫁の実家に行って来ました。
最近、半沢直樹ってドラマ流行ってるよね～？
撮影現場が大阪駅前が多いので大阪行ったついでに写真撮って来ました。
知ってる人は知っている。知らない人はスルーして下さい。
半沢の勤務している東京中央銀行　西大阪支店とその前の歩道橋です。

I couldn’t find good topics for updating my blog so almost one month was going.

Today is final day of my summer vacation so now it is daytime though, I’m drinking beer and soju because I’m kind of cerebrating the final day.

Anyway, this weekend, I went to my wife’s home in Osaka.

Nowadays drama, Hanzawa Naoki, is very popular in Japan, right?

It is taken lots of photography spot in front of Osaka station so I also went to there and took pictures.  

If you know the place, please remember the scene in the drama but if you don’t know it, please just go through and ignore.

These pictures I took are Tokyo central bank west Osaka branch, Hanzawa Naoki working, and pedestrian bridge of in front of the bank.

西大阪支店。実は阪急デパートです。

This is West Osaka branch. But it is Hankyu department building.

西大阪支店前の歩道橋。

This is the pedestrian bridge in front of the West Osaka branch.